Quotes about writing
writing stories form
I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel Anne McCaffrey
writing vocabulary style
Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!
writing together stories
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
writing needs certain
I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom
writing feels-just biscuits
When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
writing thinking talking
... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.
writing thinking hands
I think best with a pencil in my hand.
writing eight pages
My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along. Anne Lamott
writing thinking feels
Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.
writing doors want
There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.
writing thinking order
I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?
writing emotional worry
Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.
writing self-worth opinion
If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.
writing telling-the-truth good-writing
Good writing is about telling the truth.
writing doe boxes
Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere.
writing dear-lord people
I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked.
writing people world
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
writing normal fitting
Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.
writing thinking hands
When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that's an amazing feeling. I don't think anything's quite as good as that. Daryl Hall
writing insanity want
The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn. Dario Argento
writing
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
writing want one-thing
One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love. Danielle Trussoni
writing angel discipline
Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.
writing my-favorite pastime
My favorite pastime is to write. Danny Bonaduce
writing done homework
Writing an op-ed feels like I'm taking the SAT. It's so hard. It feels like homework. And if it feels like homework, it just doesn't get done. Daniel Alarcon
writing language states
I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
writing thinking paper
I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
writing thinking discipline
I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.
writing opposites practice
I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter. Dani Shapiro
writing garbage-cans house
My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.
writing world computer
The Internet and all its lures are much, much harder than anything I've ever encountered. If you're writing on a computer, the very instrument you're writing on is already tainted by the world out there in all its permutations.
writing thinking feelings
When I was writing my first novel, I smoked cigarettes. And when I think about what it was like to smoke, I remember exactly the feeling of sitting in front of my big old computer in that little room where I wrote my first novel.
writing thinking mind
Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.